Cadeem Lalor

Author and Editor. Join me on my writing journey

  • “Comics aren’t political!”

    This is a clip from the 2001 Justice League series, which is still one of the best animated superhero adaptations. If you go into this clip blind, it appears Superman is telling Shazam that superheroes can’t pick political sides or do commercials. OK, so that seems like it is clear as day. Nachtbrezel is right, Superman…

  • Superhero fitness and the lack of reading comprehension

    So today’s post is inspired by this Twitter thread. So first, Paul Rudd discusses how restrictive his diet was for “Ant Man.” Then the commenter, Dave J. Dixon, uses Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine as another example. Jackman was a relatively last-minute replacement for Dougray Scott, so he didn’t get much time to prep physically. Maybe his…

  • Wrong book or wrong agent?

    I have previously shared how difficult it was to get my first short story acceptance. It took over fifty submissions before I finally got one yes. Just one week before I received my first yes from Idle Ink for “Memory Catcher” an editor responded to one of my short stories with some personalized feedback. Typically,…

  • New published poem – The Undertaker

    Maybe not quite new, but “The Undertaker” got published on the 9th. It’s my first poem and I’m glad I finally gave a poem a try. I actually got an acceptance within my first five submissions, which gives me a bit of a boost getting into the new year. Of course, the acceptances have been…

  • Idle Ink Podcast

    A bit late but here is the Spotify link for my podcast with Idle Ink. Idle Ink gave me my first published credit when they posted “Memory Catcher” to their site. It was an honour to speak with the editor, J.L. Corbett, about my writing journey and my projects. It’s a long one (around 45…

  • TIFF Review

    As I’ve mentioned before, I got to do a review of a TIFF film for Trad. I picked Out of Sync, a Spanish film about a woman whose hearing begins to go out of sync with her surroundings. ‘Out of Sync’ hides its best moments out of sight – Trad Magazine

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